Allies gain control of key route in Cambodia
UPI reports South Vietnamese and Cambodian troops linked up at the Chup rubber plantation to secure Highway 7 from the Vietnamese border to Phnom Penh for the first time in a year. The operation’s heaviest fighting occurred in the plantation, with daylight travel deemed safe while night threats persist from Viet Cong mines.
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U S asks Cuba to free captain of captured ship
The United States urged Cuba to release Jose Villa, captain of the freighter Johnny Express, after a Cuban gunboat captured the ship. Villa, a naturalized U.S. citizen, faces conditions permitting repatriation, with his wife and three children appealing to President Nixon. The Cuban claim labels the ship pirate and counterrevolutionary.
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Radio
Runaway Youth Stowed Away From Wales Flight
Phillip Davison a 16 year old Coventry England resident ran away from a Wales boarding school and boarded a flight from London then a second plane in New York before landing in Tampa Florida He was found yesterday at Hillsborough County Juvenile Home Lake Magdalene A juvenile court hearing was set for today in the AP photo captioned report.
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Congress adjournment near end shift on Indochina war vote
Congress adjournment momentum hinged on Rep. William F. Ryan who tried to force a House vote on the Mansfield End-the-Indochina-War amendment. The bid failed 130 to 101 after the tabling move by Rep. Thomas Morgan. Several previously supportive members switched sides, altering the roll call along party lines and regional lines.
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D-Pa
GM to lay off 600 at three plants
DETROIT UP I General Motors will lay off at least 600 workers by year end at army tank automotive plants in Cleveland Ohio Warren Michigan and Milwaukee Wisconsin plus the Delco electronics division in Milwaukee GM spokesman said the layoffs follow Congress defeat of a main battle tank program extension for the U S Army.
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UPI
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Virginia Claus Echoes Through Taconic Hills Memory
An extended remembrance of Virginia O’Hanlon who asked if there is a Santa Claus. The piece recounts her life from eight-year-old inquiry in The Sun to teaching career in New York City, and her final years in a Taconic-area community. It recalls the Sun editor Frank Church’s famous reply affirming belief and the enduring Christmas spirit.
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Santa Claus
Virginia
Chatham
N.Y
Santa
Taconic Hills
New York
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Papa
New York City
Virgina
Welfare rolls swell as August gains offset by spending drop
Welfare rolls rose in August for the first time in four months with about 14.4 million people receiving cash payments, a 133 000 increase or 1 percent. Total public assistance spending fell by 15 million to 15 billion as medical care demand eased. AFDC counts rose in 42 states plus DC Guam and the Virgin Islands, while several states saw declines in other aid categories and old age relief.
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UPI
Ohio
Joseph T. Ferguson
Washington
Department of Health, Education and Welfare
HEW
AFDC
Puerto Rico
New York
California
Bangla Desh Opens U.S. Office Seeking Recognition
In Washington the infant Bangla Desh mission operates from a makeshift upstairs office above a fabric store as diplomats seek U.S. recognition and aid for 78 million as East Pakistan falls to Indian forces. Staff include Bengalis who left the Pakistani Embassy and renounced citizenship, becoming stateless refugees.
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United States
State Department
Sami Kibria
Kibria
Bangla Desh
East Pakistan
Dacca
Marriage of 82 years may be world’s longest
Ead and Margaret Hollen of Bear Branch Kentucky reportedly hold the longest marriage on record. Married May 7 1889 they are 82 years seven months ten days together with a 67 year old son Carla Beth and a large extended family including 38 grandchildren and 60 great grandchildren.
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Margaret Hollen
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Edd
Margaret
Appalachian
Carla Beth
Wrong body cremated triggers Sydney funeral mixup
Mourners were called back for a second funeral after the wrong body was cremated. The error occurred because two deceased women shared the same surname. The first cremation ashes were given to her family.
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Australia
UPI
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